Details

Date

1846

Author

Berkeley

Contribution

Published fungal causation of potato blight.

Reference

Ainsworth

Notes

Said fungus was cause of disease, not effect. Noted that his view was shared by several others (presumably they had not published). Fungal causation of potato blight was still a minority view -- and remained so until espoused by de Bary, 1861-63.
See 1845 on same subject. See "Bary" 1861.